Mike Lee

Spring is just around the corner with its violent weather swings. Last week’s bomb cyclone clobbered more than a quarter of the nation’s population with violent storms and unusually heavy winds. But that nor’easter could never match the turbulent tempests coming out of the White House.

Last Friday ended what is arguably the Trump Administration’s most chaotic week. It was as if that nor’easter had blown through open White House windows, scattering senior staffers like so many branches torn off a tree. The president lost his fourth(!) communications director, Hope Hicks, after she admitted to Congress that she told a few “white lies” for him. Son-in-law and senior adviser to the...

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Jamal Khashoggi
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Donald Trump
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Jamal Khashoggi
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Senate
opted to move forward with legislation...

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